Phantom (1922 film)

Phantom is a 1922 silent film that was directed by F. W. Murnau the same year Murnau directed Nosferatu. It is an example of German Expressionist film and has a surreal, dreamlike quality.

His obsession with Veronika costs him his job when he fails to show up for work and threatens his boss for accusing him of stalking her. Believing that his poems are to be published, Lorenz asks his Aunt Schwabe Grete Berger a cutthroat pawnbroker for money, which he then uses to buy a new suit. Schwabes assistant, Wigottschinski Anton Edthofer, encourages Lorenz to celebrate and they reunite with Lorenzs sister, who becomes Wigottschinskis girlfriend. Unable to contact Veronika, who is wealthy and engaged to someone of her own class, Lorenz instead begins courting a golddigger who looks like Veronika also played by Lya De Putti, lavishing her with expensive things, all the while reliving the day he was run over in his mind again and again. In the meantime Lorenzs mothers health begins to deteriorate due to her worries over her sons and her daughters actions, and Lorenzs friend Marie Lil Dagover and her father learn that Lorenzs poems will not be published after all.Wigottschinski swindles more money out of Schwabe and gives Lorenz a sizable amount. However, Aunt Schwabe becomes suspicious and discovers that Lorenz will not be a published poet, and she angrily demands that he pay back the money after three days or else she will notify the police. Desperate, Lorenz agrees to Wigottschinskis plan to break into her house after she has gone to sleep and to steal enough money to pay back the loan. She wakes up and discovers them, running to the window to call for the police. A struggle ensues, and Wigottschinski kills her, while Melanie runs off and eventually briefly reunites with her mother before disappearing. ........

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